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Environmental Law

2009

Rena I. Steinzor

Environmental Protection Agency

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Bad Science, Linda Greer, Rena I. Steinzor Nov 2009

Bad Science, Linda Greer, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

No abstract provided.


Myths Of The Reinvented State, Rena I. Steinzor Nov 2009

Myths Of The Reinvented State, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

No abstract provided.


Reinventing Environmental Regulation Via The Government Performance And Results Act: Where's The Money?, Rena I. Steinzor, William F. Piermattei Nov 2009

Reinventing Environmental Regulation Via The Government Performance And Results Act: Where's The Money?, Rena I. Steinzor, William F. Piermattei

Rena I. Steinzor

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Reinventing Environmental Regulation Through The Government Performance And Results Act: Are The States Ready For The Devolution?, Rena I. Steinzor Nov 2009

Reinventing Environmental Regulation Through The Government Performance And Results Act: Are The States Ready For The Devolution?, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

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Regulatory Reinvention And Project Xl: Does The Emperor Have Any Clothes?, Rena I. Steinzor Nov 2009

Regulatory Reinvention And Project Xl: Does The Emperor Have Any Clothes?, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

No abstract provided.


The Legacy Of John Graham: Strait-Jacketing Risk Assessment, Rena I. Steinzor Nov 2009

The Legacy Of John Graham: Strait-Jacketing Risk Assessment, Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

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A Perfect Storm: Mercury And The Bush Administration, Part Ii, Rena I. Steinzor, Lisa Heinzerling Oct 2009

A Perfect Storm: Mercury And The Bush Administration, Part Ii, Rena I. Steinzor, Lisa Heinzerling

Rena I. Steinzor

The Environmental Protection Agency's recent proposal to regulate mercury emissions from power plants, and its final rule on mercury emissions from chlor-alkali facilities, suffer from serious scientific, legal, economic, and distributional flaws. The first installment in this series examined the strong scientific basis for regulating mercury emissions and critiqued the agency's decisions from a legal perspective. This second (and final) installment finds that EPA's decisions also fail from the perspectives of economics and environmental justice. EPA and the Office of Management and Budget's economic analysis of the proposal to regulate mercury from power plants was shoddy and one-sided. EPA and …


Oversight Hearing On The Federal Superfund Program's Activities To Protect Public Health, Rena Steinzor Oct 2009

Oversight Hearing On The Federal Superfund Program's Activities To Protect Public Health, Rena Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

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A Perfect Storm: Mercury And The Bush Administration, Rena Steinzor, Lisa Heinzerling Oct 2009

A Perfect Storm: Mercury And The Bush Administration, Rena Steinzor, Lisa Heinzerling

Rena I. Steinzor

In December 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule for mercury emissions from power plants and issued a final rule for mercury emissions from chlor-alkali facilities. Regarding power plants, EPA had previously found that mercury posed the most serious threat among the hazardous air pollutants emitted by power plants, and also that regulation of mercury from power plants was appropriate and necessary under section 112 of the Clean Air Act, which requires stringent technology-based regulation for hazardous air pollutants. Despite section 112's clear rejection of emissions trading as a compliance option, EPA has proposed to allow commercial trading …


Testimony Before The U.S. House Of Representatives, Committee On Science And Technology, Subcommittee On Investigations And Oversight. 111th Congress, 1st Session (2009)., Rena I. Steinzor Oct 2009

Testimony Before The U.S. House Of Representatives, Committee On Science And Technology, Subcommittee On Investigations And Oversight. 111th Congress, 1st Session (2009)., Rena I. Steinzor

Rena I. Steinzor

No abstract provided.